Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
100
What noun makes this noise: MEOW!
What is a cat?
100
Clouds were playing in the sky. (What is the human action?)
What is -playing?
100
The night was as black as coal. (What is being compared?)
What is night and coal.
100
She is sunshine, brightening our day (What is being compared?)
What is the girl to sunshine?
200
In this poem name the onomatopoeia: Slam! Slam! Go the car doors. Jangle! Jangle! Go the house keys. Jiggle! Jiggle! Go the keys in the door.
What is Slam, jangle, and jiggle.
200
The warm ocean waters embraced me. (What is the non-living object?)
What is the ocean?
200
The paper is as light as a feather. (What is this simile trying to infer?)
What is the paper is very light?
200
A blank page is a playground for imagination. (What is the metaphor saying?)
What is that when you have a blank page it can be anything you want it to be?
300
Rumble! Rumble! The thunder roars. Drip! Drip! The rain comes down. Boom! Boom! The thunder shakes the window panes. Run to the car! Run to the car! Splash! Splash! To Grandma’s we go For hot cocoa. Zoom! Zoom! (Explain what this poem is about.)
What is a thunderstorm on the way to Grandma's house?
300
Our laundry jerked back and forth on the clothesline, tickled by a breeze. (What is the human quality?)
What is tickled?
300
Her eyes shone like stars in the night sky. (What is this simile saying about her eyes?)
What is her eyes are very bright?
300
"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.“ (What is being compared?)
What is the fog to a cat?
400
Squeal! Kids are running everywhere. Running and Splash – Falling in the pool. The music plays – Stomp! Stomp! The children dance. Finally, the food is off the grill- Munch, munch, munch! (What is the setting of this poem?)
What is a pool party?
400
The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. (What is being personified?)
What is the wind and forest?
400
“O my luve's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like a melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune.” (What is being compared?)
What is his love to a red rose?
400
The field is a rainbow of colors. (What is this metaphor comparing?)
What is a field to a rainbow?
500
Crack! Crack! The fire crackles under the stars. Sizzle! Sizzle! The water sizzles above the fire. Crunch! Crunch! The campers crunching on potato chips. Click! Clack! Click! Clack! The tent poles clicking and clacking together. Rustle! Rustle! As we prepare our sleeping bags to go to sleep. Chirp! Chirp! The crickets say, “good-night”. (What is the setting of this poem?)
What is camping in the woods?
500
William knew that he shouldn’t have eaten the last cookie out of the cookie jar. He knew that his father loved to eat chocolate chip cookies after work, but William ate the last one anyway. Now as he waited for his father to come home, guilt poked and chewed at William. As delicious as the cookie was, William now wished that he had never opened that cookie jar. (Which human trait or quality is given?
What is guilt poked and chewed?
500
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." (What is this simile comparing and why?)
What is comparing the uncertainty of life to the uncertainty of choosing a chocolate from a box?
500
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; (What is Shakespeare trying to tell the reader?)
What is Shakespeare uses the points of comparison between the world and a stage to convey how the world works and the lives of the people within it?
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